LA Film Festival 2014: ‘Supremacy’ is a thriller about more than just racism

Though it looks and sometimes feels like a race-baiting exploitation flick, “Supremacy” has other things on its mind.

A “Desperate Hours”-style thriller, it involves a true Aryan Brotherhood believer (Joe Anderson) who, the day he’s sprung from Pelican Bay, ends up taking an African American family hostage in their rural home. Some slurs are slung by the convict and his equally unhinged, Neo Nazi-lovin’ escort (Dawn Olivieri). But things grow weirder and more intriguing as conflicted feelings among the hostages, most especially an ex-con played by Danny Glover, twist the situation into a surprising series of betrayals, bondings and bizarre psychological gymnastics.

Director Deon Taylor has his own way of seeing things and the results are refreshingly far from the usual movie black and white.